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PEACHES. 



It is encouraging to all lovers of this luscious fruit to think 

 that the cycle of success is coming. For a dozen years we 

 have depended on the South for this fruit, which, like the 

 orange, often reaches us in poor condition. Within two years, 

 one of your committee put into the market early peaches in 

 advance of the Delaware supply ; and last season our abun- 

 dance checked the amount sent annually for the last decade. 

 In this field of industry is room for much labor and study. 

 Like all departments, there is much mystery, and your com- 

 mittee cannot throw much light on it. One of your com- 

 mittee lost by rot a fine lot of the Hale's Early, within forty- 

 eight hours. The '' yellows " is another fearful disease to watch 

 and combat. " Take them out as fast as it appears." Pile up 

 around the tree sharp sand, and try the mulch in a larger circle. 

 We hope to see a general interest in this fruit, and would sug- 

 gest that every farmer set at least six trees for experiment the 

 coming season. Give the subject care and study. We all can 

 look back and see how much better it would have been for us 

 if our fathers had planted fewer apple trees, and had attended 

 to all their wants, and carefully thinned the fruit. It was one 

 of the mistakes to which we are constantly liable. Let us not 

 fall into like error in this branch of industry. Euripides says 

 that "Zeus hates busy bodies and those who do too much." 



Respectfully submitted, 



GEORGE J. PETERSON, 



J. DAWES, 1^ Committee. 



JOSEPH WESTON, 



